Just across the Rio Grande

by Rodger Shanahan - 10 August 2010 2:38PM

In light of the reasoned and rational debate we are having over the issue of 'asylum seekers', 'unauthorised arrivals', 'illegal immigrants', or whatever is currently the term, it is educational to find out what some obviously well-informed US politicians have seen happen when you relax border controls.

Apparently, it's not only poor Mexican workers looking for a better life streaming across the Rio Grande, it's groups of Spanish-speaking (and Mexican-looking) Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force operatives as well. Not sure if this should be in the Friday Funny category, but I certainly laughed when I watched it. Because if I hadn't laughed, I would have cried...

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